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• Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

  Stephen Spender

  Ambition, Vanity, World

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• It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

  Lucian Freud

  Morning, Giving Up, Paint

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• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Heart, Roots, Forever

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• Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Hate, Safety, Succeed

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• But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

  Mary Stewart

  Power, Men, Threat

  Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

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• A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Sex, Distance, Adventure

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• I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

  Gavin Friday

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

  Jon Pareles

  Ambition, Skills, Jazz

  "Review/Jazz; Wynton Marsalis Takes a Long Look at Slavery". www.nytimes.com. April 04, 1994.

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• If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Way, Talent, Moments

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• Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Good Things, Brilliant Minds, Very Good

  "Entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki doesn't accept failure" by Edward Iwata, abcnews.go.com.

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• Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

  John Lahr

  Drama, Angel, Glasses

  "Angels on the Verge" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Heart, Use

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• I suppose that I am ambitious.

  Antonio Banderas

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• One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

  Bobby Flay

  Holiday, Men, Games

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Martha Stewart Show, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding of dreams and dreaming that they will find nowhere else. The ‘five movements’ of Integral Dream Practice will encourage many readers to follow the steps outlined, and integrate dreamwork into their own lives. This book will be an instant classic in the field.

  Stanley Krippner

  Dream, Book, Practice

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• Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Perseverance, Successful, Quality

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• I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

  Hayley Atwell

  Has Beens

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.

  Michael Waller

  Loyalty, Support, Political

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• Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Winning, Mind

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

  Dave Sim

  Life, Work, Odds

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• NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Nature, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2467, Delphi Classics

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• In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

  Maya Angelou

  Order, Two, African American

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.218, Modern Library

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• I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Asking Questions, Interesting, Perfect

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